If the option is not set, the default behavior is to use what is available. If you have gnome-keyring support it tries to use it.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jeremy Wall <jw...@google.com> wrote: > There was no password-stores line in my config file. I had to add a > password-stores line to the file to disable it. Is there a second config > file it might be pulling from that I'm unaware of? > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Varnau, Steve (Neoview) > <steve.var...@hp.com> wrote: >> >> It should only use gnome if it is specified in your config file >> (~/.subversion/config): >> >> >> >> password-stores = gnome-keyring >> >> >> >> -Steve >> >> >> >> From: Jeremy Wall [mailto:jw...@google.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:11 AM >> To: Varnau, Steve (Neoview) >> Cc: users@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support? >> >> >> >> The strangeness is it's insistence on using the Gnome Keyring despite me >> not using Gnome. Is this the expected default behaviour? >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Varnau, Steve (Neoview) >> <steve.var...@hp.com> wrote: >> >> Jeremy, >> >> >> >> If svn is configured to use a Gnome keyring, then it is trying to store >> the password you are giving on the command line in the keyring. Hence it is >> prompting for the gnome-keyring password. If you also specify >> –no-auth-cache, then you might not get a prompt. >> >> >> >> -Steve >> >> >> >> From: Jeremy Wall [mailto:jw...@google.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:09 AM >> To: users@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support? >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I noticed after updating svn to version 1.6.6 that svn now has >> gnome-keyring support. >> >> >> >> However It seems to ignore the --username --password flags if that support >> is enabled. I don't use the gnome-keyring or even gnome but subversion >> refused to let me commit until I turned off password-stores in the config >> despite giving it a valid username and password. Instead it would prompt for >> the gnome-keyring password which is not set up for me and refuse to continue >> until I successfully authenticated to the keyring. >> >> >> >> This seems like the wrong behavior to me. Is it intended? >> >> >> >> Here is my subversion information: >> >> >> >> svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053) >> >> compiled Dec 12 2009, 05:06:12 >> >> >> >> Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. >> >> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ >> >> This product includes software developed by CollabNet >> (http://www.Collab.Net/). >> >> >> >> The following repository access (RA) modules are available: >> >> >> >> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using >> Neon. >> >> - handles 'http' scheme >> >> - handles 'https' scheme >> >> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network >> protocol. >> >> - with Cyrus SASL authentication >> >> - handles 'svn' scheme >> >> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. >> >> - handles 'file' scheme >> >> >> >> >> >> Jeremy >> >> > -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/